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Search for W ′ → t b resonances with left- and right-handed couplings to fermions

January 2011
Fuel and Energy Abstracts 699(3):145-150

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Bobby S. Acharya

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Maurice Lawrence Adams

Case Western Reserve University

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We present a search for the production of a heavy gauge boson, W′, that decays to third-generation quarks, by D0 Collaboration in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV. We set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction. For the first time, we set limits for arbitrary combinations of left- and right-handed couplings of the W′ boson to fermions. For couplings with the same strength as for the standard model W boson, we set the following limits, assuming that there are right-handed neutrinos νR for all three generations with M(W′)>m(νR): M(W′)>863 GeV for purely left-handed couplings, M(W′)>885 GeV for purely right-handed couplings, and M(W′)>916 GeV if both left- and right-handed couplings are present. The limit for right-handed couplings improves for M(W′)m(νR) to M(W′)>890 GeV.

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